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Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo

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Re: Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo

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Post by zasz »

Holy shit, I know this kid. Lucas is also the #11 speed cuber in the world. Very cool guy over all.

So the point of this logo, if anyone is curious, is that Stanford regularly holds an annual social dance (meaning waltz, swing, cha-cha, etc. but with no particular concern for traditional form) called "Big Dance." Lucas really wanted the theme to be "Big Dance to the Future," but sadly, "Pride and PrejuDance" won instead.

Re: Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo

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Post by bengl »

mjgoins wrote: post #3
silvestrov wrote: post #2

The page cheats a bit: the font contains "TO THE" as a single char "&" instead of composing the words from 5 letters.

Is that why it requires js, and looks like "Back < & Future" if js is disabled?

The font is specified in the CSS with @font-face, a CSS2 feature. Perhaps the browser you're using might implement this feature using JS.

Re: Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo

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Post by dflock »

jared314 wrote: post #6

Why were fonts originally not embedded in websites? Licensing, security, support?

Depends on what you mean by originally, really. Originally all this was intended for sharing scientific research and no one cared about crap like fonts, or almost anything else we take for granted now; it kinda used to look like this: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T...

Re: Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo

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Post by carussell »

mjgoins wrote: post #3
silvestrov wrote: post #2

The page cheats a bit: the font contains "TO THE" as a single char "&" instead of composing the words from 5 letters.

Is that why it requires js, and looks like "Back < & Future" if js is disabled?

NoScript doesn't just block JavaScript. See http://hackademix.net/2010/03/24/why-noscript-blocks-web-fon...

Re: Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo

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Post by RiderOfGiraffes »

zasz wrote: post #12

Holy shit, I know this kid. Lucas is also the #11 speed cuber in the world. Very cool guy over all. So the point of this logo, if anyone is curious, is that Stanford regularly holds an annual social dance (meaning waltz, swing, cha-cha, etc. but with no particular concern for traditional form) called "Big Dance." Lucas really wanted the theme to be "Big Dance to the Future," but sadly, "Pride and PrejuDance" won inst…

I also know Lucas, and at a recent event watched him restore a cube blindfolded - most impressive.

Re: Pure CSS: The "Back to the Future" logo

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

silvestrov wrote: post #2

The page cheats a bit: the font contains "TO THE" as a single char "&" instead of composing the words from 5 letters.

Although that's cheating, you can achieve the same effect by creating the glyph and replacing any letter that's only used once (O, H or E in this case) with it. The other characters in the font can be blank. Therefore it works both for those that interpret it visually, and those that interpret the text.

I've seen this suggested for replacing a brand name with a logotype.

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